Month: November 2018

Automatic or machine translation is perhaps one of the most challenging artificial intelligence tasks given the fluidity of human language. Classically, rule-based systems were used for this task, which were replaced in the 1990s with statistical methods. More recently, deep neural network models achieve state-of-the-art results in a field that is aptly named neural machine translation. Read Full Article.

We’ve zeroed in on 5 distinct types of project managers, and have specifically pinpointed each type’s strengths, as well as the challenges that they likely encounter. The Nimdzi Localization Project Management infographic is based on data collected from over 1,000 project managers working in the language services industry and closely examines the types of localization project managers in terms of their popularity, language skills, ambition, career advancement goals, charisma, and level of seniority. Whether you are curious about what “type” of project manager you are, you are looking to advance, or you are actively searching for your next project manager, this infographic serves to inform and guide you along the way. View Infographic.

LSPs can now scale their Machine Translation quality programs with a flexible, vendor-agnostic solution that combines a manual quality evaluation platform with easy access to many MT engines. Read full article.

The Ultimate Guide to Becoming a Professional Freelance Translator and Find Online Translation Jobs

Machine translation is not a small part of the EMNLP mega conference and has its own conference stream, called the Conference on Machine Translation (WMT). WMT started out in 2006 as a series of workshops offered at EMNLP and became a full blown conference in its own right in 2016. EMNLP Organizer ACL was in fact originally named the Association for Machine Translation and Computational Linguistics (AMTCL) and changed name in 1962, six years after its founding.

LSPs become services aggregators

New lines of business

memoQ 8.6 is our third release in 2018, and we are very excited about the new functionality it brings. The highlight of 8.6 is definitely the aim to pave the way to a more CMS-friendly translation environment, but like previous versions, it includes enhancements in many areas, including integration, terminology, productivity features, file filters, and user experience. Learn more about the most recent version and see how it will help you be even more productive.

There are many companies who cater solely to their own language. That is, they only provide products and services in their native tongue, whether that be English, Spanish, French, Chinese, or any of the arguably thousands of living languages spoken around the world. So, if an organization caters to customers who predominantly speak only one language, is there even a need to localize? In one word, yes.